This is tomorrow! See you then! Jay
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > A short reminder that this will be next week. Please put it on your > calendars! > > I've created the Hangouts on Air event for you to mark that you'll be > attending! > > https://plus.google.com/u/2/events/cjf9s8p98ks8d7attk0fdem2t88 > > Jay > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On March 15th at 10am MDT, please join us for the second Inside Racket >> Seminar where Matthew Flatt will give us a walk-through of the >> bytecode compiler. >> >> As before, it will be on Google Hangouts on Air with Matthew walking >> through the code and giving an explanation of how it all hooks >> together. This is not a tutorial on Racket or on the compiler as a >> library, but a kind of oral history and explanation of the software >> and how it works. Our hope is that this will increase the ability of >> others to build and maintain similar software as we share this kind of >> expertise in a way that doesn't fit our existing distribution >> mechanisms (research papers, RacketCon talks, documentation, etc.) >> >> I hope that you are able to attend and send your own questions as we go >> through. >> >> Here are some things you may want to look at to prepare: >> >> 0. The compiler is written in C, so be ready for that. :) >> >> 1. The decompiler tool has an explanation of the high-level structure >> of the bytecode: http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/decompile.html >> >> 2. Casey's paper with Matthew and Robby, "The Racket Virtual Machine >> and Randomize Testing", has another explanation of the bytecode and a >> reduction semantics for it: >> http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/racket-machine/ >> >> 3. R. Kent Dybvig's 1987 PhD thesis, "Three Implementation Models for >> Scheme", is readable and was personally very useful for me in >> understanding how an implementation like Racket's works (in >> particular, the second model): >> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/3imp.pdf >> >> Please feel free to send questions beforehand, on this thread or to me >> personally. We will archive the video for later viewing, etc. >> >> Jay >> >> -- >> Jay McCarthy >> Associate Professor >> PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell >> http://jeapostrophe.github.io >> >> "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, >> for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. >> And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." >> - D&C 64:33 > > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy > Associate Professor > PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAJYbDa%3DaCvp3D5M33Li0grG7uaviDBkZGHRAEp9T6LBFtccO_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
